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When Republican Senators eviscerated Susan Rice in her campaign for Secretary of State, everyone assumed that they had some grand strategic plan for the Republicans to take over the Senate majority next year. With her out of the race, the only other likely nominee was John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts. Once Kerry took the job, the Bay State would hold a special election to replace him; Scott Brown would regain his seat, and the likelihood that the Democrats would hold the majority in 2014 would markedly decline.

Then, last weekend, Scott Brown threw a monkey wrench into these plans. He decided, three weeks before the deadline, not to run for the seat. Under the rules, in order to be on the special election ballot, they have to receive 10,000 signatures in that time. Why would Brown decide not to run?

There are two rationales. The less cynical position is that he prefers to run for the Governor’s job opening next year. This would provide him with experience in the executive branch that he could later parlay into a future Presidential run. The other explanation is that after his defeat by Elizabeth Warren in November, he couldn’t so quickly run again for the Senate since another loss would take him out of the political arena for years.

But now, the Massachusetts GOP has been placed in a difficult position. It either opts to not have a real candidate for the special election, and just give it to the Democrats for the long-term future, or somehow find another candidate who has a chance to win. There seems to be only one person who could possibly win: Ann Romney. She obviously has higher name recognition than any Democratic contender. She also has enough money (although not as much as Al Gore) to run a competitive race. She clearly has some health issues, but she need not run a person to person race. She could instead have a number of television ads that show the personality and knowledge of issues that made her so popular last year.

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34 Responses to “Is Ann Romney the GOP’s Last Hope?”

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Ronald J. Ward Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 9:28 am

Considering ole Honest Mitt’s popularity in Massachusetts is akin to a turd in a punch bowl, it would be interesting to see what role he’d play.

Ann would likely do well in debates with Tagg ready to punch the lights out of anyone talking bad about his mommy.

Since it’s a special election, patrick, I’m not nearly as pessimistic as you. I think ann or weld could win, assuming that enough $$ was thrown into the contest.

I’m not sure how important it is that the gop takes over the senate in 2014, if all they do is rent it for 2 years. But I think it’s doubtful they can gain enough seats without this one.

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buzzbee Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 11:36 am

“God made liberals without a sense of humor. He works in mysterious ways.”

That must be why there are so many right wing comedy shows, such as Beck, Rush and Mark Levin (what an unlikely voice for radio, I keep thinking it is Don Knotts or Wally Cox, darn I’m old, center square please).

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buzzbee Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 11:42 am

Any consideration will probably have to wait as I think the Romneys might be in mourning as Andre Cassagnes died on Saturday.

Who?

The man that invented the Etch A Sketch, of course.

He was a French electrical technician that stumbled upon the idea in the late fifties.

The Ohio Art Company saw it at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1959 and sold, get this, 100 million of them. Of late, however, they transferred the manufacturing from Ohio to China (hmmm…where have I hear “that” story before?).

After the Romney aide incident they came out with a blue one along with the usual red. I’m not kidding about that.

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Andy Z Says:
February 5th, 2013 at 7:15 am

Buzz,

You know as well as I do that the Romney China-Jeep ad NEVER said that all manufacturing of Jeeps was being moved to China.

You Liberals just love these myths don’t you? Right alongside the Saddam-9/11 myth and the Benghazi video myth. Of course, Liberalism (in its current form of Progressive-Socialism) is based completely on foolish myths.

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buzzbee Says:
February 5th, 2013 at 9:35 am

Do you believe the intent of the ad was to make people believe that jobs that should have been in Ohio were instead in China?

That is exactly how it was perceived. Do you think that was an accident?

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Best thinking thinker Says:
February 5th, 2013 at 11:57 pm

Hi Andy!

So can you please explain the point of the Jeep ad? It was an attack ad against Obama. Attacking him for what?

Seriously, Ann Romney? Has she ever had any public exposure besides being the wife of a failed presidential canidate? A rich white woman with a degree in French? Well, I guess she would certainly serve the conservative elite but it seems awfully desperate….

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buzzbee Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 9:52 am

“Seriously, Ann Romney? Has she ever had any public exposure besides being the wife of a failed presidential canidate? A rich white woman with a degree in French? Well, I guess she would certainly serve the conservative elite but it seems awfully desperate….”

“So can you please explain the point of the Jeep ad? It was an attack ad against Obama. Attacking him for what?”

Questions about Ann Romney are valid.
Questions as to why the Jeep ad is an attack on Obama show an incredible disconnect.
Its Obama who boasts of keeping jobs in America.
Washtimes;
“Obama is such a fan of Jeep that he included a picture of himself speaking at the Toledo plant in his newly released second term agenda binder. In his address to the plant in 2011, Obama said, “I just took a short tour of the plant and watched some of you putting the finishing touches on the Wrangler. Now, as somebody reminded, I need to call it the ‘iconic’ Wrangler. And that’s appropriate because when you think about what Wrangler has always symbolized. It symbolized freedom, adventure, hitting the open road, never looking back.”

Well it appears that the taxpayer bailed-out Chrysler is looking back and now considering cutting costs by shifting production of all Jeeps to China, which has a strong desire for Jeeps.
In a Bloomberg interview, Jeep’s president said the automaker plans to restore Jeep production in China, suspended in 2009, and is considering making all Jeeps in China. “Fiat SpA, majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers’ operations in the region,” reported the business wire service.”

““Seriously, Ann Romney? Has she ever had any public exposure besides being the wife of a failed presidential canidate?”

Nice try. But again, dishonest as hell.
Shes also the wife of a successful business man, governor and philanthropist.
I dont know how effective she’d be on the hill but if the leftist morons can find room for Al Franken I see no reason to not give Ann a whirl.
Seriously, Ann Romney doesnt have much public exposure ?
Whens the last time Nancy Pelosi pumped her own gas or spoke to a real person ?

I’m sort of confused. You understand that your argument is silly, since you recognize that tons of dem spouses have little political experience when they run initially, yet you still make the claim.

micky,

with geraldo in the senate, I wonder if we’ll find out where jimmy hoffa is buried, and other earthshaking things. I think maybe something that works against him in the race might be his book where he apparently had as many sexual conquests as wilt chamberlain.

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buzzbee Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 10:49 am

“buzz,

I’m sort of confused. You understand that your argument is silly, since you recognize that tons of dem spouses have little political experience when they run initially, yet you still make the claim.”

Buzz, please, knock off the idiocy.
Whos building this site in China ?
Whos gonna operate the site in China ?
Are they going to import American union workers to work there ?
Chrysler has yet to deny their movement of Jeep operations to China will not employ Chinese workers.
If the answer is yes then we can put all those potential American jobs in the cabinet with all the ‘shovel ready jobs” never created that your messiah thinks is so funny.
And have the Chinese thank us for using the money they loaned us to boost their employment numbers.
GM and Chrysler are not BACK !
They’re still floundering in debt and were lied to about it every damn day so why you choose to believe these ass holes is beyond me.
Oh, yeah, party first, I forgot

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buzzbee Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 12:42 pm

An American car company will build cars with Chinese workers in a plant in China to sell to Chinese people.

Just like Honda does here.

Again, not moving jobs.

Why is this difficult?

American workers going to China?

Whaaat?

Just out of curiosity, do you read what commenters write or simply scan?

If these workers arent Chinese then the only plausible scenario is to import American workers to China.
I doubt that’ll happen and wanted to know your thoughts.
Seriously, its getting increasingly tiresome having to bring up to speed on basic forms of communication.

Obamas campaign, boasting of how great his work with American car companies was going to employ more Americans turned out to be bs on his part and we all got hustled by Chrysler who should not be opning anything in China with money they borrowed from China which you and our kids and I have to pay back, and we’ll never get the principle back either.

Your constant attempts by way of bs semantics ie; “moving jobs” is dishonest, disingenuous and flat out bullsht as the true subject is not jobs created being transfered to any country but instead our tax dollars creating new jobs in another country that loaned us the FCKIN MONEY TO DO SO !!!!!!!!!!
DO-YOU-UNDERSTAND ?

Your parts buddies on the golf coarse might want to clue you in on something.
Almost no car these days is beholden to its country of origin.
I refinish metals for Harleys and every car on earth, mostly older models where the parts are no longer in production, in bad shape and serious crafters dont want retro kits or cheap imitations.
Just about every car on earth now has Japanese and Chinese components in them, even European models.
The only real American cars that were designed, and built in America by Americans are all well past the antiquity term which is around twenty years.
Everything went to sht in the 60s

Even Harley has been putting Jap parts on their bikes for a couple decades now.
This sht that American auto makers are some beacon of patriotism is a bunch o crap.

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buzzbee Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 3:50 pm

As usual, I have no idea what your point is other than “things ain’t the way they used to be”.

“You are an idiot”.

And again, there it is.

You might be surprised that other people from both sides of the aisle, do not consider me an idiot, stupid or a moron.

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Patrick McCain Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 4:09 pm

The bottom line of of all this is that the Romney ad was correct. Jeep shifted jobs to China. Buzz says that is a good business decision because they would cost more if built here. True as well. Been true about shifting manufacturing jobs for decades. Not sure what you swell fellas are arguing about.

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buzzbee Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 4:22 pm

They did not “shift” jobs.

Just saying it over and over again does not make it true.

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buzzbee Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 4:23 pm

From the same Bloomberg piece that Micky referenced:

“Chrysler currently builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China.”

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Best thinking thinker Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 10:14 pm

#30:

McCain, the point is that Micky, Romney and others believe that Obama has not been socialist enough… that he should somehow have exerted more government control over Chrysler and its business decisions. They think that manufacturing in China is bad and the U.S. government can and should stop it.

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Patrick McCain Says:
February 6th, 2013 at 10:55 pm

Naw BTT, this all goes back to a truthful Romney ad from the campaign in which he correctly said that Jeep sent jobs to China. He was fact checked poorly on it, but turned out to be true. Has nothing to do with Obama.